Junior Trading Support System Specialist
Location: London, UK
Junior Trading Support System Specialist role primarily focused on Front Office Trading, Electronic Trading Systems, Position Keeping, Booking Systems and Exchange Connectivity Networks, acting as a first point of contact for trading support and systems issues.
Principal Responsibilities
- Handle configurations, testing, releases, installations, and monitoring of trading applications and the respective back end systems.
- Act as the first point of contact for traders and others within the firm to respond to and investigate trading system issues.
- Perform system and network troubleshooting and resource optimization.
- Communicate with other members of the Support teams to ensure consistency of tools, information, and processes
- Document new procedures and review and improve documentation of existing ones
- Communicate and work with external parties such as exchanges and vendors, as appropriate.
- Effectively prioritize workload and react to immediate systems issues with good judgment and credible decision-making.
- Maintain ongoing and growing technical knowledge and learning.
Qualifications-Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Exemplary troubleshooting skills
- Excellent understanding of SQL
- Excellent understanding of Linux/Unix including awk, sed, and shell scripting
- Strong understanding of perl and/or Python
- Knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Familiarity with proprietary trading environments is highly desirable
- Familiarity with financial markets is highly desirable
- Experience with Linux/Unix and network administration is highly desirable
- Knowledge of C++ and Windows administration is a plus
- Ability to integrate technical details with the big picture and communicate with other parties to provide satisfactory solutions and ensure customer satisfaction